I continue following the story of Lisa, a Russian immigrant girl raped in Berlin, because I believe that looking at a single story in depth can be more revealing than skimming over a hundred of similar stories.
Yesterday, I watched an interview given by Lisa’s lawyer. The lawyer is a very calm and reasonable fellow, obviously neither a Nazi nor a Putinoid. He is obviously deeply hurt by the shrill accusations of being a Nazi that he keeps getting hurled at him for doing his job and representing his client. But he’s completely opposed to the narrative of “all migrants are rapists” and says that he’s a migrant himself and detests persecution of migrants.
So here is what he said. Lisa is from a bad family, or rather, a typical post-Soviet family. The parents are very controlling, the mother badgers her constantly. Of course, such children form a perfect victim pool for pedophiles, rapists, and abusers. They are taught since infancy that they are not entitled to control their bodies and lives, they feel perennially guilty and terrified.
Yesterday, the Berlin police made an official statement saying that it has been proven beyond all doubt that “there was no rape or physical abuse.” After that, the police spokesman added in a small little voice “on January 11.” Obviously, the German press published the statement without the qualifying “on January 11.” Whether anything did or did not happen on January 11, it is a fact of objective reality that the police have in their possession videos where Lisa is being raped by the two Turkish men in question starting back in November.
This is beginning to look increasingly like a Rotherham-type situation. A child from a bad family is being gradually groomed and broken by two adult rapists. She is being filmed while she’s raped for purposes that have not been established yet. German authorities are hiding from this disturbing reality behind the silly little tricks of mumbling “on January 11” really fast and hoping that nobody would notice and the irresponsible journalists are ready to oblige and publish whatever crap they are being fed.
Lisa’s tragedy is being used by people to promote Putinoid, anti-Putinoid, pro-Russian, pro-Ukrainian, anti-immigrant, pro-immigrant, neo-Nazi, anti-Nazi, and all kinds of other narratives. Nobody wants to engage with the facts instead of with voices in their head. Even the journalist who interviewed Lisa’s lawyer was obsessed, above all, with whether what happened to the child was “rape and not just pedophilia because rape is so much worse.”
P.S. I forgot to mention that the German police absolutely is investigating the rape videos. My beef with them is not that they are not doing their job, it’s that they are misleading the public for political purposes.
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Race trumps sex in the modern world, that is, people are less afraid of being called sexist than racist…
Also, Western Europeans are also not shy about proclaiming their superiority to those east of the old Iron Curtain.
So here, to take the girl seriously they have to be willing to be seen as being on the same side as the Eastern Eruopean and siding against muslims (simultaneously sacred other and profane other).
It’s too much cognitive dissonance for bureaucrats to face.
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They will soon have another Rotherham on their hands if they continue this way.
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“They will soon have another Rotherham on their hands if they continue this way.”
The political elite in Europe (and most feminists) have done a superb job in ingoring Rotherham so I’m fairly sure they’re not alarmed by the possibility….
They will be alarmed when the public has decided it’s had enough…..
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Yes, Rotherham has been silenced, mumbled over, and dismissed. Which is why I will pursue this story for as long as possible. Let there be at least one place where this is discussed.
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Bravo. It is absolutely inconceivable that the left would ignore the plight of 1,400 young girls. Isn’t sex with minors or children a punishable offense? Has this changed? I thought it was a government’s duty to protect the most vulnerable members of society?
Rotherham and Köln happen when ideology trumps facts on the ground.
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The indifference to Rotherham has been absolutely shocking. What a disgrace.
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Good news! EU elites have decided that Cologne had nothing to do with migrants!
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12130843/EU-leaders-No-link-between-Cologne-sex-attacks-and-migrant-crisis.html
“As far as the crimes in Cologne were concerned, he said that these were a matter of public order and were not related to the refugee crisis,” the minutes say. ”
Id’ say something about deck chairs and the Titanic but you don’t like metaphors, so….
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Well, we all feel so much better now! And I’m sure the victims are very relieved.
I especially like it how “a matter of public order” makes the issue unrelated to the migrants. Because they are not part of the public order. They are an underclass that is not noticed.
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Also: of the two rapists, one seems to have been born in Germany. But the authorities make it clear that for them he’s not like any regular Hans or Kurt.
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\ EU elites have decided that Cologne had nothing to do with migrants!
‘Hundreds-strong’ mob of masked men rampage through Stockholm station beating up refugee children in revenge attack for female asylum centre worker killed by Somali ‘boy’
Black-clad masked men targeted refugees at Stockholm train station
The mob, linked to football hooligans, targeted unaccompanied minors
Before attack they handed out racist leaflets with message ‘Enough now’
They also refer to alleged murder of Swedish aid worker Alexandra Mezher
She was stabbed to death breaking up fight between two migrant boys
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The issue of the Moroccan teen gangs first made headlines last year, and the situation has since escalated with Stockholm police demanding authorities to take action. Desperate officers have started arresting the teens for public drunkenness in order to get them off the streets for a few hours, with the policeman adding that they are ‘on our knees’. The gangs are made up of orphans who have grown up on the streets of Casablanca and Tanger in Morocco, where authorities estimate there are around 80,000 homeless ‘street children’. They have all applied for asylum Sweden as unaccompanied minors after travelling through Spain and Germany, a journey which may have taken them years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3423968/Mobs-hundreds-masked-men-rampage-Stockholm-central-station-beating-refugee-children.html
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When the nation-state retreats from its duties, something nasty tends to step into the vacuum.
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\ When the nation-state retreats from its duties
One example of retreating:
Police in a German town were ordered not to prosecute migrants for certain crimes – just two months before the New Year’s Eve sex attacks in Cologne, it has emerged.
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Documents published by the Bild newspaper on Thursday show that an official guideline issued by the police directorate in Kiel in October 2015 let asylum seekers effectively live outside the laws of the land when it comes to minor theft and criminal damage. Officers were told there was little chance of success because so many of the arrivals in Germany do not have papers, and often if they do, they are false.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3420623/German-police-ordered-not-prosecute-migrants-two-months-New-Year-sex-attacks-Documents-officials-thought-pointless-arrivals-ID.html
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Seventy years of being shielded from violent unrest and war by the Cold War and US nuclear umbrella are coming home to roost in Western Europe. The spoiled governments there have long forgotten how to deal with violence in the streets — and now they’re going t o have to learn how to deal with it quickly, or be torn apart.
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That’s an important comment. The definition of a state is that of an entity that is invested with the power legitimately to exercise violence externally (foreign policy) and internally (policing.) And you are absolutely right when you say that handing over your external authority will erode the internal one. That’s how states function.
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Clarissa, you said that if Europeans had not wanted it, it would not have happened, but this poll seems to show differently:
Almost forty per cent of Germans believe Angela Merkel should resign over her handling of the refugee crisis, according to a new poll released on Friday.
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Almost a month after the attacks, German public opinion is split down the middle over the refugee issue, according to the poll for Focus magazine.
Of the more than 2,000 people surveyed, 39.9 per cent said they believed Mrs Merkel should quit.
But 45.2 per cent said they didn’t want her to resign, while 15 per cent were undivided.
The findings are a dramatic turnaround from before the refugee crisis began, when Mrs Merkel enjoyed seemingly unassailable approval ratings.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12129782/Nearly-40-per-cent-of-Germans-want-Angela-Merkel-to-resign-poll-finds.html
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If under 40% are opposed, this means that 60+% – an overwhelming majority – are loving the situation.
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Merkel obviously won’t leave power before the next German elections unless the main opposition party can generate a “vote of no confidence” in the Bundestag — there’s no talk of that yet.
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An American news source (CNN.com) has just published an article stating that the girl has admitted fabricating the rape story, after voluntarily spending the time with a German man.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/01/europe/germany-teen-migrant-rape-false/index.html
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Yes, on January 11th she did spend the night at a friend’s place. That’s a fact. It is also a fact that she was raped by these two men repeatedly starting back in November and the police have a video of that.
This is what it looks like when people report half-truths.
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I believe you shouldn’t judge a situation of a country that actually takes part in two wars as if times were peaceful. Germans may wish there to be no Syria, no Ukraine, no refugees, and only inner policies; but that isn’t possible. It looks as if the regular EU citizens wanted their governments to have all international problems solved, but never to deal with them at all. The fact migrants are coming already makes the situation wrong; any response will be wrong, too, all consequences will be unwanted.
Half-truths, lies, stupid truths with the effect of exploding bombs. Which of them should Merkel choose and which do you choose?
And yes, blame me of anything. Lisa’s tragedy is quite terrible.
But – well – what I saw around it in the media and in the networks, was a Russian “media attack”. It’s a military act, and people may and probably will die later because of it, though nobody is shooting right now. German authorities are very well aware of this fact. Their electors aren’t.
I wouldn’t be very hard on Merkel under such circumstances.
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Thank you very much for the update.
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